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Travis,<br>
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There is a discussion in the fpc archives 2014 I believe about using
Geany.<br>
<br>
I have been using Geany for over 10 years with complex GUI programs
... but you must use a file located in the directory where the
executable is linked.<br>
<br>
... in this case extrafps.cfg<br>
<img moz-do-not-send="false"
src="cid:part1.XOUtGVlC.DqNoB2ed@golden.net" alt="" width="335"
height="167"><br>
... and reference the file extrafpc.cfg in Geany <br>
<img moz-do-not-send="false"
src="cid:part2.Ka7luUdf.gIe2jlM4@golden.net" alt="" width="634"
height="164"><br>
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BTW : The guys documenting FPC have never bothered to describe this
in any documentation that I can find.<br>
<br>
Vern<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2024-11-17 12:48, Travis Siegel via
fpc-pascal wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:855ec7cc-95d9-7190-115e-45730fd05e90@softcon.com">
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On 11/17/2024 12:57 PM, Sven Barth via fpc-pascal wrote:
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<blockquote type="cite">Am 16.11.2024 um 16:42 schrieb Marcos
Douglas B. Santos via fpc-pascal:
<br>
FPC and Lazarus are as unified as is sensible. We keep them
different by *choice* so that users don't think that they *have*
to choose Lazarus if they don't want to.
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But the problem is (as I've repeatedly stated on this list) is
that if one doesn't use lazarus for their IDE, then building
anything other than basic command line programs is nearly
impossible. I've asked (multiple times) on this list for samples
of doing various things with FPC that lazarus does with ease,
(such as GUI, and networking), without using lazarus, and each and
every time, the silence has been deafening.
<br>
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I've never once received any information on doing these kinds of
things without Lazarus. Sure, there's a (very) few examples of
using tcp/ip networking with the default FPC install, but those
examples are about as simplistic as it's possible to get, which
actually shows next to nothing about such capabilities. aAnd,
I've *never* seen any samples of how to build a GUI app just by
using the command line compiler. I've done searches on google,
and asked on this list, and everything I can turn up shows nothing
as relates to building an FPC app with a GUI w/o using some IDE or
other.(mostly lazarus), so if you could kindly point me to such
resources, I'd love to see them
<br>
<br>
Typically when I ask such questions on this list, I get either no
response at all, or I get snarky ones that contribute nothing to
the discussion. (mostly from yourself).
<br>
<br>
This is why I almost never use FPC for program development, unless
it's a cross platform application that can run from the command
line, there's just no point in doing otherwisesince I don't use an
IDE of any kind.
<br>
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I use powerbasic when GUI is required on windows, and java when
GUI is required on other platforms.
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I'd love to use FPC, since it otherwise checks all the boxes,
cross platform, and capable of networking, and GUI programming,
but I simply can't, because I can't find any examples of such for
someone who doesn't use Lazarus.
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